Karen Fog Olwig
University of Copenhagen
67 Papers
590 Citations
Karen Fog Olwig is an academic researcher from University of Copenhagen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Refugee & Identity (social science). The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 64 publications. Previous affiliations of Karen Fog Olwig include University of the West Indies.
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Papers
Climate change and human mobility : global challenges to the social sciences
Kirsten Hastrup,Karen Fog Olwig +1 more
- 01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: Hastrup et al. as discussed by the authors explored the link between migration and environmental change in northern Ethiopia and highlighted the risks of engineering mobility to reduce vulnerability to climate change in a small island state.
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The Care Chain, Children's Mobility and the Caribbean Migration Tradition
TL;DR: In this paper, children's mobility is analysed as an important foundation of the migration tradition that has been an integral aspect of most Caribbean societies, and it is suggested that young adults' migration for domestic work, which often builds on informal interpersonal social relations and offers the only means of migration for the many women who do not have access to more attractive forms of wage-labour migration, can be viewed as an extension and transformation of child migration.
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Caribbean place identity: From family land to region and beyond
TL;DR: In this article, a useful point of departure for ethnographic research on the Caribbean can be found in the study of constructions of place and the wider patterns of rooted mobility, at various regional scales, which they implicate.
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